Dr Mark Bould
Reader, Film and Literature, UWE
Mark Bould is Reader in Film and Literature at the University of the West of England. He is a founding editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and a former editor of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction, Extrapolation, Historical Materialism, Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres and Science Fiction Studies, and of Liverpool University Press’s Science Fiction Texts and Studies monograph series. He is the author of Science Fiction (2012), The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (2011), The Cinema of John Sayles (2009) and Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005), and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009), Neo-noir (2009), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (2009), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (2009) and Parietal Games: Critical Writings By and On M. John Harrison (2005). His current work is concerned with afrofuturism and African sf, and with intersections between biopolitical theory and world cinema.

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Author of Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook (2012), The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star (2009) and Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (2005).

Co-author of The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (2011).

Editor of Africa SF (Paradoxa 25).

Co-editor of Neo-Noir (2009), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (2009), The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (2009), and Parietal Games: Critical Writings By and On M. John Harrison (2005).

Co-editor of Science Fiction Film and Television, and advisory editor of Deletion: The Online Journal in Science Fiction Studies, Extrapolation, Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media, Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres and Science Fiction Studies. ​

Science fiction film, literature and television. Film noir and neo-noir. Political cinema. Marxism. 

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